Things are looking very grim there. Like northern Italy.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation
More from Allison Duettmann, who is co-writing what looks to be an interesting new book with Mark Miller (who I haven’t seen in years).
If you have the time, the next in the playlist is a salon with her and Aubrey De Grey on the value of life extension, but it’s a little over an hour. Foresight has put a lot of videos on line recently from its Vision Weekend last year.
“Green” Grocery Bags
It will be morbidly hilarious if “green” Californians die from coronavirus due to their voting stupidity.
The Coronavirus
The problem with it isn’t what you can see, but what you can’t.
[Update a while later]
Six movies about pandemics to watch (or avoid) if you’re stuck at home (from Lileks).
On Child Cruelty
A Coronavirus Tipping Point
It’s not a problem until it gets to the lungs.
That probably means that the highest risk is to people whose lungs are already compromised, from smoking, or asthma, or other things. That might also explain why there have been no reported instances of it killing kids.
[Update a few minutes later]
What are the chances of someone in your company getting it?
Drink Up
Regular consumption of hard liquor may provide protection against the coronavirus.
It would be ironic if drinking Corona itself did so.
AOC Outsciences Ted Cruz
…by making a baking-soda volcano.
Here’s how I discovered this.
I was listening to a speaker at a conference and almost LOLed.
The Epidemic In Waiting
How it erupted in China.
Freeman
I thought I’d posted this, but we’ve lost a giant of math, physics, philosophy and space. Condolences to Esther and the rest of the family. I just saw her at the space transportation conference a few weeks ago.
From over two decades ago, here’s an interview of him by Stewart Brand.
Lots of comments over at Instapundit.